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The mini-studio issued a proxy statement indicating top brass are being well compensated after the company posted its best fiscal year earnings and stock-price run-up ever.

TORONTO – Launching a successful franchise (The Hunger Games) and posting your best fiscal year earnings ever will bump up any CEO's pay.

And a proxy statement issued Monday underlines how Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer and vice chairman Michael Burns are being handsomely compensated by the mini-studio for the company's performance and recent stock-price run-up.

Feltheimer is set to receive a $6 million cash bonus and $2.5 million in share units and other "stock-priced bonuses" on top of his base salary of $1.3 million.

The Summit Entertainment acquisition helped Lionsgate expand its revenue line and produce adjusted EBITDA of $329.7 million, up 360 percent from the prior year.

Highlights of the 2013 movie slate noted in the proxy statement included the box-office performances of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Warm Bodies, The Expendables 2 and Madea's Witness Protection, as well as The Hunger Games from the fiscal 2012 theatrical slate.